@wwf_uk welcome Ed Davey & set out key expectations on #energy in an open letter in @telegraph

The appointment of Ed Davey as the new Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change has come at a critical time. The International Energy Agency (IEA) and the United Nations Environment Programme have highlighted the urgency with which substantial investment in low-carbon needs to be made if the world is serious about preventing the worst impacts of climate change. In its World Energy Outlook 2011 , the IEA made it very clear that in the absence of rapid investment in zero-carbon technologies (such as renewables) the infrastructure will be in place by 2017 will produce all the carbon dioxide that we can afford to emit if global average temperature rises are to be kept below 2˚C. Here in the UK, the Government is working on a major reform of the electricity market. If done right, this could set the power sector on a path towards reducing its emissions, and play a key ro...